Hiram Lyday Sloanaker Guardian Angel manuscript
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Hiram Lyday Sloanaker Guardian Angel manuscript
- Date
- 1954-1963
- Creator
- Sloanaker, Hiram Lyday, 1895-1972
- Extent
- 0.15 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Autobiography.
- General stores--Kentucky.
- Preferred Citation
- 64m127: [identification item] Hiram Lyday Sloanaker, Guardian Angel Manuscript, 1954-1964, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Poet Hiram Lyday Sloanaker (1895-1972) was born in Newton, Iowa, on November 12, 1895 to Chester and Elizabeth Sloanaker. Chester Sloanaker was the president of First National Bank in Newton, Iowa. From 1915 to 1917, Hiram Sloanaker attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He enlisted in the army in the fall of 1917 as a Corporal Sergeant and served in World War I as the First Sergeant with Co. G, 363rd Infantry, 91st Division. In 1918, he was severely wounded near Montfaucon, France, and later received a Purple Heart. Following his discharge in 1919, Sloanaker earned is A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1921. He married Irene Jasper of Newton, Iowa in 1923; they had two sons, Charles Jasper and John Lyday. Sloanaker failed as a bonds salesman and studied English at Harvard for one year in 1925. He became a writer and journalist at the Boston Sunday Post, editing the Sunday magazine until 1953.
- Scope and Content
- The Hiram Lyday Sloanaker Guardian Angel manuscript (dated 1954-1963; 0.15; 1 box) consists an excerpt from his autobiography and his curriculum vitae from 1963. Sloanaker wrote his autobiography Guardian Angel from 1954 to 1955, following his retirement from journalism. The excerpt from his autobiography includes chapters ten through eleven. The chapters relate his experiences at the University of Michigan and his travels in Kentucky while working for D.M. Ferry & Co., a Detroit seed firm. Sloanaker spent two summers and one fall visiting stores in Pike and Floyd counties on horseback. Additionally, Chapter X contains a 71 line poem titled "Toasts to Old Kentucky," describing Appalachia.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
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